Operating online

• Risks to data and information

  • Unauthorised access
  • Deliberate damage by malware
  • Accidental deletion
  • Phishing
  • Pharming
• Phishing

  Sending emails that appear to be from real organisations that ask users to open hyperlink that opens a website
• Pharming

  Creating fake websites to trick users into entering login details
• Firewall

  • Uses internet traffic to direct users to their pages
  • Controls data entering and exiting a network
  • Compares to rules set by admin and approved/refuses access
• Security measures

  • Firewall
  • Encryption
  • Passwords
  • CAPTCHA
• Third party payment processors: Paypal


  • Allows users to create a third party account so that they can send and receive money using email account
  • Links with online shopping apps
• Impacts of the internet on employment

  • New skills required (e.g. journalism)
  • Job opportunities
  • Job losses
• Collaborative working

  • Employers can focus on a single task and expertise in their area of focus
  • Employees do not share their skills, reduced understanding of the whole project
• Flexible working


  • Can work at a suited time, fit work around social life and work from anywhere
  • Reduced understanding, distractions, may not be able to access resources
• Positive impacts of the internet

  • Improved communication
  • Access to global market/workforce
  • Usage of information
  • Better access to information
  • New ways of learning
  • Wider range of entertainment
• Negative impacts of the internet

  • Security issues
  • Competition (e.g. DVD rentals, newspapers)
  • Reduced social interaction and physical activity
  • Cyberbullying
• Factors affecting the digital divide

  • Location (rural vs urban)
  • Politics
  • Disabilities
  • Age
  • Income
  • Education
• People who have greater access to information have a greater level of education and an enhanced ability to make decisions
• Online gaming

  • Links to social media
  • User profiles
  • XP points
  • Discussions
  • Notifications
• Online work space

  • Cloud storage
  • chat rooms
  • virtual meeting spaces
  • commenting on documents
• Forums

  • Provide communities with online spaces for discussions
  • Groups
  • Moderators & administrators
  • Posts and threads
  • Ratings
• Video and photo sharing sites

  • Accounts
  • Content management
  • Tags, comments, vote ratings
• Social bookmarking

  • Allows users to categorise
  • Tags
  • Accounts
  • Social networking features
• Staying safe online

  • Report or flag
  • Word/URL censoring
  • Block
  • User and acceptable use policy
• Anonymity can lead to misrepresentation
• VLE's

  • wall/timeline
  • notice board
  • sharing, assignments
  • comments
  • chat rooms
  • virtual meeting spaces
  • login
  • gradebooks
• WiKi

  allows communities to collaborateto build web pages

  • accounts
  • editing
  • search tools
• Data protection laws

  Personal data protection act

  laws that require consent, appropriate use of data and a stated specified reason
• Individuals have the right to

  • object to data processing
  • have inaccurate data rectified
  • claim compensation for damage caused by a breach
• What is copyright

  The legal power that provides the creator with the sole authority to distribute their work
• Ways of monitoring individuals are

  • CCTV
  • number plate recognition systems
  • passports
  • IP and MAC addresse
  • bank transactions
• Sustainability

  power requirements of devices

  power requirements of cooling systems

  resources used in making devices are sometimes toxic
• Physical implications of digital technology

  • eye dryness
  • rsi
  • tripping hazards
  • fire